Psychotherapy and Exorcism

The split between exorcism and medicine has caused great confusion. This separation has made it impossible to understand what belongs to which. This idea has also led the human being to believe that we are victims, either of demons, or of eating the wrong foods or of any other type of physical behavior. As a result, we have impeded medical doctors from considering the psychological life in their treatment and dissuaded exorcists from accepting medical treatment and medicine in their process. If exorcism worked as the exorcists generally think it does, the possessed would be free of their demons after a single session. This does not happen, however, and in fact, the process can drag on for years, illustrating the need for treatment of the psyche as well.

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Description

There has been a fundamental mistake made by the exorcists in regarding demons as similar to human beings who are still more or less with God but occasionally manifest unreasonable attitudes, become violent or lose touch with reality. Demons are already in this illusory world, except they are not able to realize what they are doing. They are just like a psychotic human being who has become delusional and out of touch with reality and so no longer belongs to our world of consciousness of good and evil. Devils are locked inside a fiery vortex, eternally destroying their existence but unable to die simply because they do not accept their own being, the very thing that prevents them from destroying life. This fact of not accepting existence while simultaneously existing has made them blind, deaf, and unable to taste, smell or touch, while inside they are devoid of intuition, knowledge, love and emotion, accomplishment or action. They are like pieces of stone trying to insinuate themselves into living humans, animals and even minerals so they can feel a little bit of life and free themselves from the nothingness they have chosen. People who are possessed are always lacking good feelings or rational thought; they let loose with their instincts and all the resultant pathological effects: extreme hatred, strong envy and especially arrogance and theomania, which cause avarice, violent desires for pleasure, uncontrolled hunger and deep-seated and never-ending lethargy. I believe that there is more demonic possession in cases of psychosis than in physical disease, while many specialists try to see the causes in bacteria in the brains of these sick patients — although these patients have in fact deformed their grey matter through their behavior.